FLOOD04694

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: The Region VIII Cape Study - A Guide for Staff Performing Community Assistance and Performance Evaluation Visits
• Date: 9/1/1984
• Prepared For: Region VIII
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

(b) Telephone Interviews Checklist - use your
observations and the responses you received to
items A4 (b-k) and B (4-7) to characterize lenders,
agents and local officials' familiarity with the
NFIP, past flooding, issues they consider
important, etc.

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I. Introduction: The purpose of the opening paragraph
of the Report is to provide an understandable context
for the findings and recommendations that follow. Some
readers of the Report will have no on-site experience in
the community, but they may need to use it to justify
staff and funds allocations for recommended technical
assistance and enforcement, To make this possible, you
will need to draw from your experience in preparing for
and conducting the CAPE to develop a brief but clear
description of: the community's physical setting, loss
exposure and floodplain management strategy;
demographic, claims and other statisitical data;
attitude, competency and sophistication of local
officials and government structure; amount of land
available for development in and out of the floodplain;
local perceptions of flooding as a problem; etc. Your
sources for this information are the community profile
and the initial interview checklists and your notes from
pages 3, 5 and l6 of the CRF.

(a) Community Profile Checklist - give (i) the
reason why the community was selected for a CAPE
(number 4 on the checklist); (ii) key dates in NFIP
participation (numbers 5-9); (iii) estimates of
lives and property at risk (numbers 10-13);
(iv) flood insurance statistics (numbers 14 and
l5); and (v) an estimate of future growth as
indicated by building permit activity (number 17).

2. Floodplain Tour: Your goal in the tour write-up is
to make understandable to the reader (1) the character
of the flood hazard and floodplain development; and (2)
the need for changes in floodplain mapping, Start by
giving the sources from which you compiled the list of
sites that were visited during the tour. Then estimate
the extent of the community's floodplain that you were
able to tour. Last, describe existing, ongoing and
anticipated development; construction practices; and
types of mitigation that you observed.

As sources for this information, refer to your list of
sites on p. 4 of the CRF, the tour checklist on p, 7 and
your notes from the tour on p. 6. The "New Development"
list at Part 4A (1-12) provides an outline for your
description of new development, The "Map Accuracy" list
at Part 4B (1-9) provides an outline for your discussion
of the need for map changes~

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